Fran Newquist on sun 16 feb 97
Imagine 1000 Empty Bowls handcrafted and donated by potters to benefit SOME
"So Others Might Eat". This event, sponsored by members of The Clay
connection, will be held at St. Anthony's Church, 3305 Glen Carlyn Road,
Falls Church, Virginia on Friday, March 7.
For a $10 donation you will get a bowl to keep, dinner of soup and bread,
entertainment, pottery demonstratons, and lots of fun. This will be the
third event sponsored by The Clay Connection. Over $22,000 was donated
during the two previous events. That is a lot of bowls and a lot of effort
on the part of the local pottery community.
If you would like to donate bowls, contact Fran Newquist at Tin Barn Pottery
703-330-1173 or George Brown at Pine Ridge Pottery.
The Clay Connection is an active networking group for potters throughout the
Metropolitan Washington DC area. We meet monthly to exchange ideas, develop
contacts, share ideas. Our goals are to provide a network of pottery
information for all members and to further the art and craft of clay by
teaching and sharing experiences. Upcoming events include a Tile Workshop
in February, a member showcase in April with Pam Eisenmann, and a two-day
May workshop with Sandi Pierantozzi and Neal Patterson. The annual art
festival will be held April 20 at the Annandale Campus of Northern Virginia
Community College. This is an opportunity for potters and ceramic artists
to show and sell their work. September 5, 6, 7 is the 2nd Virginia Clay
Conference at Front Royal with Ellen Shankin, Donna Polseno and Lisa Naples.
Membership in The Clay Connection includes reduced fees for events, a
quarterly newsletter, and monthly activities. In addition, the Clay
Connection gives a scholarship to a week-long workshop of your choice.
Several members have chosen Arrowmont as their program of choice.
Questions about membership and programs may be directed to fnew@erols.com or
703-330-1173.
Thanks, Fran
Shermgail@aol.com on wed 19 feb 97
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
From: Fran Newquist
Subject: EMPTY BOWLS
Imagine 1000 Empty Bowls handcrafted and donated by potters to benefit SOME
"So Others Might Eat". This event, sponsored by members of The Clay
connection, will be held at St. Anthony's Church, 3305 Glen Carlyn Road,
Falls Church, Virginia on Friday, March 7.<<<<<<
We are also doing an Empty Bowl event at the Harrison Street Clay studio in
Downtown Hollywood, Florida, on March 21st. It will involve the ceramic
students from 3 Community Colleges, the Miami Clay Art School & Florida
Atlantic Univ plus all the artists that exhibit in the gallery space. We
will be asking the surrounding restaurants to donate the soup & bread .
As this is the first time we have done this event, any suggestions from Fran
& anyone else that has been involved in this event, will greatly be
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Gail Sherman
Donna L. Fenner on wed 19 feb 97
Gail - Most larger cities have an SOME operation in their area. We donated
through the Urban Ministry. Anyone interested in doing something like this
for the less fortunate citizens can usually contact an organization
responsible for providing for individuals in their area. It gives you an
extra sense of accomplishment to know that your bowls and containers are
benefiting someone at the same time they are being viewed.
Best wishes on your enterprise
Donna
Creative Ceramics
Greensboro, NC
At 10:36 AM 2/19/97 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>From: Fran Newquist
>Subject: EMPTY BOWLS
>
>Imagine 1000 Empty Bowls handcrafted and donated by potters to benefit SOME
>"So Others Might Eat". This event, sponsored by members of The Clay
>connection, will be held at St. Anthony's Church, 3305 Glen Carlyn Road,
>Falls Church, Virginia on Friday, March 7.<<<<<<
>
>We are also doing an Empty Bowl event at the Harrison Street Clay studio in
>Downtown Hollywood, Florida, on March 21st. It will involve the ceramic
>students from 3 Community Colleges, the Miami Clay Art School & Florida
>Atlantic Univ plus all the artists that exhibit in the gallery space. We
>will be asking the surrounding restaurants to donate the soup & bread .
>
>As this is the first time we have done this event, any suggestions from Fran
>& anyone else that has been involved in this event, will greatly be
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Gail Sherman
>
Charlotte Williams on thu 20 feb 97
Clayworks in Lansing MI is planning a Bowl-A-Thon for March. Our
members get together on a Sunday, bring food and throw bowls all
day. We have our Empty Bowls event in October and donate the bowls
to the Red Cross. Area restraunts donate soup and bread and all
bowls sell for $15. We hold the event at our downtown Center for
the Arts during the lunch hour and at the dinner hour. Office
people line up at the lunch hour, waiting for the door to open. Its
great fun making, volunteering to work the event, and knowing you are
doing something for others! For our Pottery Co-OP its also great,
cheap advertising.
Pleased to see others doing this too!
Char Williams
Clayworks
Lansing, MI
Karen Greene on mon 16 jun 97
I am interested in starting an empty bowls project here in my own home
town. Any advice, information from folks who have done this? Or perhaps
someone has already done this here and would like to tell me its already
happening.
Karen kgreene@olywa.net
Emily Henderson on thu 19 jun 97
Hi Karen... We're just beginning too and anxious to learn from old pros at
this. I'm stealing all the data I can get.
I did get some information from Joan Slack-DeBrock from River Run Pottery In
Wisconsin. She says the concept comes from John Hartom and Lisa Blackburn
P.O. Box 40 in Franklin MI 48025. They are the originators. They will
provide you a "start-up" packet and they like to keep tabs on projects that
have from stemmed from their idea. I have my snail-mail letter to them in
my hand, and suffer from a lack of stamps, but will be getting a letter off
soon. Can you tell us, is "olywa" Olympia Washington? That's my best
shot at guessing your address?? Emily, in Astoria OR, where it's POURING,
again!
At 04:21 PM 6/16/97 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I am interested in starting an empty bowls project here in my own home
>town. Any advice, information from folks who have done this? Or perhaps
>someone has already done this here and would like to tell me its already
>happening.
>Karen kgreene@olywa.net
>
>
C M Prantl on wed 16 dec 98
there is a nice discription of this project on the page
www.clayworld.com/potters.htm, a great idea
carina
Anton TenWolde on sun 20 dec 98
Since we are on the topic - I couldn't resist bragging about the success of
our second Empty Bowls! We here in Madison, WI raised $17OOO on World
Hunger Day in October. As you can see, we have wonderful support from our
potters, with practically everything else donated too!
One of the most rewarding thing that we do is our work with unpotters, in
schools, scout troups, neighborhood kids, (and their parents), friends,
etc. With lots of bisqued stamps, and simple thrown bisqued bowl molds
even the 4 year olds can make a terriffic bowl - a slab for the base and a
coil for the rim! Hoping to raise some enthusiasm for clay work at the
same time we help the hungry in our area.
One more thing - our band was a potter's pickup band - time donated - we
are all talented in more than one way!
Its a lot of work, but very rewarding - I'd recommend it to any area that
isn't already doing it!
Marcia
Paula Sibrack on sun 20 dec 98
Raphael, When I first learned about Empty Bowls, it was much like the concept
Vince has explained. I have, however, modified it to work for my situation in
a HS ceramic studio. Students each make an extra piece, usually a bowl, and
then it is donated to our Soup Bowl Sale (SBS). A large portion of the profit
goes to Loaves and Fishes, which is a local soup kitchen in New Milford, CT.
Every few years the Director of L and F comes and speaks to my students about
the work of the Kitchen and I have had several students who go there to
volunteer. I feel that introducing young people to ways that they can "give
back" to the community is important. BTW, since many of the patrons of the SBS
are faculty members of the school and now own dozens of soup bowls, we have
responded to requests to offers other items for sale. Especially popular are
mugs and plates. The other art classes have also gotten involved by making
screened T shirts, femo pens, decorated light switch plates, ... you name. Our
sale just finished; it correspeonds to the holiday season. Good for sales,
through any time is a good time for charity. We have another salein the
spring, with profit donations to a local scholarship fund. Good luck with your
variation of Empy Bowls. Paula Sibrack Marian, in the woods of Sherman, CT
Kris Bliss on wed 7 apr 99
Hi all, last week i posted a report on our emty bowl project here
in anchorage. I received an inquiry for more info and tips on doing
the same in the writers community. Ok here is the oops part, I have
some info etc for this person... but have oops deleted the letter.
so if this person and anyelse for that matter , will write again, i will
]provide as much info/assistance i can.
Thank You,
Kris Bliss in Anchorage where it is Still Winter.
Earl Brunner on wed 17 may 00
I heard from another potter here in Vegas that this is the
tenth year of the Empty Bowl Project, and that they were
trying to have as many empty bowl projects nation wide
(world wide?) Has anyone heard anything about this? We are
looking at National Hunger Day in October I think.
--
Earl Brunner
http://coyote.accessnv.com/bruec
mailto:bruec@anv.net
Eloise VanderBilt on fri 19 may 00
Today, here in Sedona, we just finished our empty bowls project which has
come to be known as the "loving bowls" project. I don't know if it is part
of the national organization or not, but it has been very successful.
Local potters donated over 500 bowls which were beautifully displayed in the
Talaquepaque courtyard. The crowd was admitted at 5 p.m. and people rushed
around the tables looking for works by their favorite potters. Everyone who
bought a bowl then got a ticket for a pasta party which will be held
tomorrow beside Oak Creek, with the pasta being donated by Joey's Bistro.
The pasta does not go into the bowls they bought, but is served in
disposable bowls.
The project is planned by the Adult Community Center and performed with the
help of many volunteers. The proceeds from the bowl sale go to the Meals on
Wheels program.
That's how it's done here in our beautiful town where I am loving life.
eloise@sedona.net
Michelle Lowe on fri 19 may 00
At 09:21 PM 5/17/2000 -0700, Earl Brunner wrote:
>I heard from another potter here in Vegas that this is the
>tenth year of the Empty Bowl Project, and that they were
>trying to have as many empty bowl projects nation wide
>(world wide?) Has anyone heard anything about this? We are
>looking at National Hunger Day in October I think.
Only the tenth? I think this is our tenth year here in Phoenix, in
October, were we within the first year?
I haven't heard, but I can look into it.
Mishy
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Mayssan1@AOL.COM on fri 19 may 00
Please forgive my ignorance but what is an empty bowls project?
Cheryl L Litman on sat 20 may 00
Curious, what do the bowls sell for? I think our local church is selling
the bowl/meal for $8 and we potters think that's too low, they should ask
for more.
What do other empty bowls people charge?
Cheryl Litman ---------- Somerset, NJ --------- email:
cheryllitman@juno.com
***Experience is what allows you to recognize a mistake......when you
make it again.***
On Fri, 19 May 2000 19:11:47 -0700 Eloise VanderBilt
writes:
> Today, here in Sedona, we just finished our empty bowls project which
> has
> come to be known as the "loving bowls" project. I don't know if it
> is part
> of the national organization or not, but it has been very
> successful.
>
> Local potters donated over 500 bowls which were beautifully
> displayed in the
> Talaquepaque courtyard. The crowd was admitted at 5 p.m. and people
> rushed
> around the tables looking for works by their favorite potters.
> Everyone who
> bought a bowl then got a ticket for a pasta party which will be held
> tomorrow beside Oak Creek, with the pasta being donated by Joey's
> Bistro.
> The pasta does not go into the bowls they bought, but is served in
> disposable bowls.
>
> The project is planned by the Adult Community Center and performed
> with the
> help of many volunteers. The proceeds from the bowl sale go to the
> Meals on
> Wheels program.
>
> That's how it's done here in our beautiful town where I am loving
> life.
>
> eloise@sedona.net
>
>
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ImagineRen@AOL.COM on sun 21 may 00
Earl--
What you have heard is accurate. We are striving to create/support 1000
simultaneous Empty Bowls events nationally to commemorate World Food Day,
October 16, 2000. We will also be holding The Emtpy Bowls 10th Anniversary
National Exhibition September 8 to October 24, 2000 at The Swords Into
Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery in Detroit. We have an information packet
available for $5. Send a check to The Imagine/Render Group
PO Box 167
Oxford, MI 48371
You may visit our website at www.emptybowls.net for the latest information.
Thanks, John Hartom
ImagineRen@AOL.COM on sun 21 may 00
Michelle--
The Empty Bowls 10th Anniversary National Exhibition will be held September 8
to October 24 in Detroit. The original pilot took place at the high school
where I taught in November of 1990 and the official information packet was
first available in early spring 1991. We are looking for bowls for this
exhibition. We are also working to create/support 1000 simultaneous Empty
Bowls events to commemorate World Food Day, October 16, 2000. You may find
our website at www.emptybowls.net
Our information packet is available for $5 at:
The Imagine/Render Group
PO Box 167
Oxford, MI 48371
Please pass this information on to anyone interested in the project. Thanks
John Hartom
ImagineRen@AOL.COM on sun 21 may 00
Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger utilizing
the ceramic arts. The basic premise is quite simple: Someone (often potters)
makes ceramic bowls and invites people to a simple meal of soup and bread in
exchange for a cash donation. The participants are then asked to keep their
empty bowls as reminders of all the empty bowls in the world. The individual
or organization sponsoring the event then chooses a hunger fighting
organization to receive the proceeds. We are holding The Empty Bowls 10th
Anniversary National Exhibition September 8 to October 24 in Detroit and are
seeking donations of bowls from ceramic artists across the country. We are
also striving to create/support 1000 simultaneous Empty Bowls events to
commemorate World Food Day, October 16, 2000. We have an information packet
available for $5. You may send a check to:
The Imagine/Render Group
PO Box 167
Oxford, MI 48371
or visit our website at www.emptybowls.net
Thanks for your interest. John Hartom
ImagineRen@AOL.COM on sun 21 may 00
Eloise-
I just read about your successful Empty Bowls project. Congratulations. We
started Empty Bowls ten years ago and continue to distribute materials about
the project. We are working to create 1000 simultaneous Empty Bowls events
to commemorate World Food Day, October 16, 2000 and are also organizing The
Empty Bowls 10th Anniversary National Exhibition to be held September 8 to
October 24 in Detroit. We need donated bowls for the exhibition.
It would be of great help to us and to the growth of the project if you could
make sure to indicate at your event and in your publicity that your project
is indeed an Empty Bowls event so people will know that it is an
international project. Please include our organization's name and address so
others may contact us at:
The Empty Bowls Project
C/O The Imagine/Render Group
PO Box 167
Oxford, MI 48371
248.628.4842
E-mail: ImagineRen@aol.com
Website: www.emptybowls.net
Many thanks. I hope we can count on a bowl for the national show.
John Hartom
ImagineRen@AOL.COM on sun 21 may 00
Cheryl-
We have hundreds of return forms from potters and organizations across the
country and beyond. While many school groups charge from $5 to $10 per bowl
with soup, most potters and organizations using potters' bowls charge $10 to
$15. Eight seems quite low. On the other hand, each group must figure out
what seems right for them. If your church is doing all the administrative
work, providing the hall and preparing and serving the soup, they do have a
major investment in the project just as do the potters. If history is any
indication, your event will become an annual one and you can always allow the
price to rise next year.
Please see our website at: www.emptybowls.net for news of ours efforts to
create 1000 simultaneous Empty Bowls events to commemorate World Food Day,
October 16, 2000 and The Emtpy Bowls 10th Anniversary National Exhibition
that will run from September 8 to October 24, 2000 in Detroit.
We would like to get your group involed in both efforts.
John Hartom
The Emtpy Bowls Project
C/O The Imagine/Render Group
PO Box 167
Oxford, MI 48371
ImagineRen@AOL.COM on sun 21 may 00
Nanci--
Do we have an official Participant Response Form from you about your Empty
Bowls project for our files? We try to keep track of as many of the events
as possible. And check our website for news about the upcoming Empty Bowls
10th Anniversary National Exhibition and our commemoration of World Food Day,
October 16, 2000 with 1000 simultaneous Empty Bowls events nationwide.
John Hartom
The Empty Bowls Project
Evan Dresel on sun 21 may 00
We charged $10 which I also thought was too low. However, a number of
people gave more! I suggest that you call your asking price "suggested
minimum donation". I think I will try to convince people that $12 is
still a good value. We had an interesting situation arise where one of
the community college professors thought that we should charge more for
one of the other professor's pots. I just couldn't see that as a
practical way of doing things so he ended up buying the pots before they
got to our event. That was too bad IMO because we didn't have a lot of
diversity in bowls as it was -- most were from the community college
professors and me. Got to work on getting more potters involved.
-- Evan in W. Richland WA who just finished pickling this spring's 30
lbs of asparagus
l L Litman wrote:
>
> Curious, what do the bowls sell for? I think our local church is selling
> the bowl/meal for $8 and we potters think that's too low, they should ask
> for more.
>
> What do other empty bowls people charge?
>
ENJB@AOL.COM on sun 21 may 00
Lutheran Family Services sponsors the Empty Bowls luncheon here. Participants
buy a $25 ticket that entitles them to a lunch of soup, water, bread and a
piece of fruit plus their choice among the hundreds of bowls produced by
school children. LFS provides the clay and glazes to the teachers. I have my
students produce a bowl for the Empty Bowls project and one with our own
materials that they get to keep. Larger bowls, professionally produced ones
or especially nice ones are taken to various sites prior to the luncheon and
sold to the public at large. These don't include the luncheon in the sales
price but help to promote it. The proceeds support the Food Bank.
Nanci
Jacksonville, FL
pam pulley on mon 22 may 00
Here in Mid Michigan we have empty bowls in October. Both the local pottery
guilds and independent potters participate. 10th year coming up.
We are now asking 15$. We have appoximately 900 bowls and most of the time
they are gone by the end of the day.
-Pam
>From: Cheryl L Litman
>Reply-To: Ceramic Arts Discussion List
>To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
>Subject: Re: Empty bowls
>Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 17:05:28 -0400
>
>Curious, what do the bowls sell for? I think our local church is selling
>the bowl/meal for $8 and we potters think that's too low, they should ask
>for more.
>
>What do other empty bowls people charge?
>
>Cheryl Litman ---------- Somerset, NJ --------- email:
>cheryllitman@juno.com
>
>***Experience is what allows you to recognize a mistake......when you
>make it again.***
>
>
>On Fri, 19 May 2000 19:11:47 -0700 Eloise VanderBilt
>writes:
> > Today, here in Sedona, we just finished our empty bowls project which
> > has
> > come to be known as the "loving bowls" project. I don't know if it
> > is part
> > of the national organization or not, but it has been very
> > successful.
> >
> > Local potters donated over 500 bowls which were beautifully
> > displayed in the
> > Talaquepaque courtyard. The crowd was admitted at 5 p.m. and people
> > rushed
> > around the tables looking for works by their favorite potters.
> > Everyone who
> > bought a bowl then got a ticket for a pasta party which will be held
> > tomorrow beside Oak Creek, with the pasta being donated by Joey's
> > Bistro.
> > The pasta does not go into the bowls they bought, but is served in
> > disposable bowls.
> >
> > The project is planned by the Adult Community Center and performed
> > with the
> > help of many volunteers. The proceeds from the bowl sale go to the
> > Meals on
> > Wheels program.
> >
> > That's how it's done here in our beautiful town where I am loving
> > life.
> >
> > eloise@sedona.net
> >
> >
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>Cheryl Litman ---------- Somerset, NJ --------- email:
>cheryllitman@juno.com
>
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>make it again.***
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mel jacobson on mon 12 mar 01
i have always given a few nice pieces to our local project.
they have a silent auction, and my stuff has always sold
for several hundred dollars.
it seems that it is a good method.
i stick with our local project, and do not give to
every bowl project in the minneapolis area.
that gets very tiring...one could make bowls full
time for these folks....and they get huffy when you say..
`hey, i give to our local group, i do not have time
for twenty others.` they say,`well, i would think
you would want the publicity.` sorry, not.
often folks that get involved with charities think they
are of a higher order. pain in the butt.
i want to know where my money is going. and i give.
just don't want to support a new mercedes benz for some
director. (note bias)
mel
From:
Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.A.
web site: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
Joyce Lee on sun 18 mar 01
Three bowls are completed, wrapped and ready to mail tomorrow.
Joyce
In the Mojave pleased to have finally developed the good sense not to
compete with my betters ... very much admire those of you who can throw
dozens in one day... but that's not I ... not yet. AND I have bowls for
swapping, for payback AND mugs for the Clayart room to complete ASAP.
AM happy that The Thundering Triumvirate have knocked off the
viciousness ... guys! Jeez...... Why can't the newly Mellow Mayor go,
too???? Ten bucks is ten bucks......
Kevin H. Miller on sat 24 mar 01
chris
i am planning on arriving in charlotte after driving from 'lil' washington
(30 east of greenville on 264) on wednesday afternoon. i'm only doing
thursday and friday and coming back saturday am.
i would be more than happy to offer you some time in your very worthwhile
project. i guess the best thing to do is just show up, huh. you can let
me know what you need. i have a lot of problems with my feet so this
actually looks like a good way to rest my tootsies and not miss too much of
the circus!
i would like to ask some advice now that i have a fellow north carolinian
online -- i seem to have lost my ride back home to washington on saturday.
i went ahead and bought a train ticket just in case (i actually love trains
-- it's just another $32, you know). it also doesn't come but to wilson
which is an hour away from washington. if you perchance know any potters
who are driving east -- towards the ocean on 264 -- that would like an
extra rider would you let me know. i can't believe i feel weird asking
about a ride from a potter on the internet but i do.
if you want more specific info about my schedule -- sorry -- don't have
one. i'm doing day passes and i don't have a clue.
looking forward to meeting you
roberta miller
Chris Schafale on sun 25 mar 01
Roberta,
I don't know anyone from your neck of the woods, but will keep my
ear out. You're welcome to ride back with me on Saturday
afternoon as far as Raleigh if that would help.
Re: EB table, we need help most on Thursday and possibly Friday,
so when you get an idea about when your free times might be,
come by and let us know.
Chris
> chris
> i am planning on arriving in charlotte after driving from 'lil' washington
> (30 east of greenville on 264) on wednesday afternoon. i'm only doing
> thursday and friday and coming back saturday am.
>
> i would be more than happy to offer you some time in your very worthwhile
> project. i guess the best thing to do is just show up, huh. you can let
> me know what you need. i have a lot of problems with my feet so this
> actually looks like a good way to rest my tootsies and not miss too much of
> the circus!
>
> i would like to ask some advice now that i have a fellow north carolinian
> online -- i seem to have lost my ride back home to washington on saturday.
> i went ahead and bought a train ticket just in case (i actually love trains
> -- it's just another $32, you know). it also doesn't come but to wilson
> which is an hour away from washington. if you perchance know any potters
> who are driving east -- towards the ocean on 264 -- that would like an
> extra rider would you let me know. i can't believe i feel weird asking
> about a ride from a potter on the internet but i do.
>
> if you want more specific info about my schedule -- sorry -- don't have
> one. i'm doing day passes and i don't have a clue.
>
> looking forward to meeting you
>
> roberta miller
>
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L. P. Skeen on sun 25 mar 01
Roberta,
I suggest you post a note to the effect that you need a ride wherever the
note posting is done in the Clayart Room. Also, repost that information
HERE, with an appropriate header so folks who are skipping "empty bowls"
posts might see it. :)
L
> i went ahead and bought a train ticket just in case (i actually love
trains
> -- it's just another $32, you know). it also doesn't come but to wilson
> which is an hour away from washington. if you perchance know any potters
> who are driving east -- towards the ocean on 264 -- that would like an
> extra rider would you let me know. i can't believe i feel weird asking
> about a ride from a potter on the internet but i do.
>
> if you want more specific info about my schedule -- sorry -- don't have
> one. i'm doing day passes and i don't have a clue.
>
> looking forward to meeting you
>
> roberta miller
>
>
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Earl Brunner on sun 13 may 01
I just wanted to mention that the Nevada Clay Guild in Las Vegas, held
an Empty Bowl Event April 28th (our first) and raised $10,000.00 dollars
for the local charity involved. We sold 600-700 bowls at $12.00 each
and had a silent auction. For our first time, it was very successful.
--
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k.m.whipple@ATT.NET on tue 18 sep 01
Hello Friends,
I'm interested in talking with anyone who has helped
organize an Empty Bowls event. I've been to thier
website and will be sending away for the info packet; I
think I've found a great venue for the event, and am
hoping to be able to coordinate it all for this holiday
season.
Also if any of you are in the Gainesville, FL area, and
you'd like to help, please email me.
Kathy Whipple
Brooker FL
Judith S. Labovitz on tue 18 sep 01
Kathy...Noted clay sculptor and potter Mark Chatterley and I helped
organize the first Empty Bowl fundraiser in the greater Lansing (Michigan)
area in 1991....we are about to hold our 11th.....Ourevent is extremely
successful, relatively simple, and raises between $10,000 and $15,000 per
event. All proceeds go tot he Regional Food Distribution Center of the
American Red Cross...they agency from which local shelters and food banks
purchase their food. With their incredible organiztion, they can turn a
$10..contribution into 70 meals.....
When we began we had absolutely no idea what to do....it cam together by
serendipity!!
Our up coming event is not very different than than our very
first....hardly anything has changed!
1. we began by informally asking local potters if they were interested
2..we called a meeting, and developed some basic ground rules.....the pots
MUST be good ones, not seconds. The place MUST be downtown Lansing (Not
suburbs) and be handicapper accessible and most importantly, ALL proceeds
MUST go directly to food....not administration.
3 A student intern workng at my agency (I was n administrator in a social
welfare agency at the time) wanted a project; she send letters to all
restaurants in the area, and, by coincidence, those responding did so
offering donations of bread, soups and water....a typical soup kitchen
meal. To this day, that is our 'menu' and we share this event with a
great many of the original donors!!
4. the local Center for the Arts, and ARt Gallery (located in the same
building) donated their space and custodial staff....we are still there!!
5. My husband is active in local community theatre....he asked several of
his friendsto provide entertainment, they did, and still do!!
6. we started as a 'dinner' 5-7 pm; soon expanded to the lunch hour
(11:30 - 1:30) and now we do about 80-90% of our business at
lunch. Being downtown, it is convenient for office workers.
Our first event raised over $4500!!!
we had np idea how to get publicity....we hand carried a little blurb about
the event to the local paper, and a feature writer saw the possibilities
and lo and behold, we had a 1/4 page devoted to it....the local radio and
TV stations also liked it (what's not to like??)
we are now 'institutionalized' it is simply assumed we will have the
":soup thing" each October....
we charged $10 initially, which included the patron's choice of
bowl, choice of soup, bread and water...the is a tax deductible
contribution to the ARC
We now charge $15.00
we actually serve the soup in (gasp) plastic or styrofoam containers. The
Red Cross provides bags with utensils, napkins, hunger related
information etc..... (This sort of thing evolved....that first year we
used plastic baggies and washed all the bowls)
A local hospital donated about 100 cafeteria trays.
we can usually count on between 700-1000 donated bowls each year, and
truly cannot do more than this...neither in terms of bowls or the space
available to us at the center for the arts.
A few years ago the Red Cross assumed the running of the event...as
potters, all we do now is what we really KNOW how to do, which is make
bowls....none of us are professional fundraisers...ARC has a
staff, volunteers, tables, chairs, ability to do mass publicity (as I
am sure you all know) make the tray liners etc......we did all of this
ourselves the first few years!!
Please email off line if I can answer any questions etc...
judy
At 03:08 PM 9/18/01 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello Friends,
>I'm interested in talking with anyone who has helped
>organize an Empty Bowls event. I've been to thier
>website and will be sending away for the info packet; I
>think I've found a great venue for the event, and am
>hoping to be able to coordinate it all for this holiday
>season.
>
>Also if any of you are in the Gainesville, FL area, and
>you'd like to help, please email me.
>
>Kathy Whipple
>Brooker FL
>
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Lana Reeves on tue 2 oct 01
Hi Everyone-- This past Sunday, Mudflat Studio hosted an Empty Bowls =
Benefit Dinner. Over the summer, Muflat students, faculty and artists =
made hundreds of bowls. Soups, breads, ice cream and drinks were =
donated by local businesses. The city let us use space at one of the =
schools for the event. Haven't got the exact numbers yet, but we raised =
at least $4,500. All money collected goes to Project Soup, which =
operates 3 food pantries here in Somerville, MA.
This event was part of our year-long celebration of our 30th =
Anniversary.
Lana in Somerville, MA
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Val on tue 5 mar 02
>this wonderful cause has journed to Canada....I sponsored some empty
bowls in my studio and did a workshop at one of the churches....what
a good thing this is....
Hugs
> If nobody is putting on an empty bowls event at NCECA I would like to ask
> for help here in Pennsylvania. We are holding our first Empty Bowl Banquet
> on April 15! What a day to hold a banquet. We are collecting bowls now and
> we need a lot more. We already have several restaurants that are donating
> soup, bread, salads and desserts. The bowls that are collected will be
> displayed at Albright College for two weeks prior to the event. one and If
> you can send a bowl please do so before March 31st. Send them to Nancy
> List, 920 Imperial Drive, Mohnton, PA. 19540. I will be happy to report
> back what we raised to donate to the Reading Emergency Shelter for homeless
> men, women and children. Thank you very much. Nancy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Bowen"
>
Val Mann ww,FCDA Mem.,CDAN,Memorybox,
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Earl Brunner on fri 22 mar 02
It is so good to have a week off from school (actually I've only had a
week of school since I got back from NCECA) still, I'm looking forward
to doing a lot with clay this week. Tomorrow we are meeting at a local
high school to make bowls for our Empty Bowls project. I really enjoy
getting together and working in a studio setting with other potters once
in a while. Last year was our first guild sponsored Empty Bowls event
and we did very well, clearing over $12,000.00 for our charity.
--
Earl Brunner
http://coyote.accessnv.com/bruec
mailto:bruec@anv.net
Marty Morgan on tue 21 jan 03
I'm planning our 3rd annual Empty Bowl Event for May 15th in Gloucester,
MA. Last year we had over 400 bowls and ran out! This year I have a grant
from our Cultural Council for $500 to pay for clay , glazes and firing. We
have had donations of pots from area potters and students, and I have held
bowlathon events for community members, politicians, and friends at my
studio. This year I thought I would make some white bowls and let people
decorate them. ( I had major repair work to do when everyone did handbuilt
work with my usual stoneware.) So my question is whether to use lo-fire
cone 05-06 clay, have folks decorate with , say, Amaco Velvet underglaze
colors and then I'll clear coat them; or go with a cone 6 clay for
durability. My own work is in cone 10 stoneware so this will be new for
me. The catalogs say that the Velvet underglazes work on Cone 6 bodies as
well as the lo-fire ones. Any advice is welcome.
Also, if there's anyone in the greater Boston area who would like to donate
a bowl or come to the event, let me know. We have a lovely location on the
ocean, live music, great soups and a wonderful group of people running the
event.
Marty Morgan
Gloucester, MA, where the salt water river behind my studio freezes and
refreezes, making ice sculptures as the tide goes in and out.
Chris Schafale on tue 21 jan 03
Hi Marty,
I have had mixed success with Velvets at cone 6. Avoid the
Medium Pink, which will behave very oddly indeed -- it
buckled/blistered -- hard to even describe it but it didn't look like a
food-safe surface to me! Other colors were OK, but not that great.
Note, however, that this kind of work is not my forte, so I may not
have been using the right clear, the right firing schedule, the right
kiln dance, or whatever.
Chris
Date sent: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:23:20 -0500
Send reply to: Clayart
From: Marty Morgan
Subject: Empty Bowls
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> I'm planning our 3rd annual Empty Bowl Event for May 15th in Gloucester,
> MA. Last year we had over 400 bowls and ran out! This year I have a grant
> from our Cultural Council for $500 to pay for clay , glazes and firing. We
> have had donations of pots from area potters and students, and I have held
> bowlathon events for community members, politicians, and friends at my
> studio. This year I thought I would make some white bowls and let people
> decorate them. ( I had major repair work to do when everyone did handbuilt
> work with my usual stoneware.) So my question is whether to use lo-fire
> cone 05-06 clay, have folks decorate with , say, Amaco Velvet underglaze
> colors and then I'll clear coat them; or go with a cone 6 clay for
> durability. My own work is in cone 10 stoneware so this will be new for
> me. The catalogs say that the Velvet underglazes work on Cone 6 bodies as
> well as the lo-fire ones. Any advice is welcome.
>
> Also, if there's anyone in the greater Boston area who would like to donate
> a bowl or come to the event, let me know. We have a lovely location on the
> ocean, live music, great soups and a wonderful group of people running the
> event.
>
> Marty Morgan
> Gloucester, MA, where the salt water river behind my studio freezes and
> refreezes, making ice sculptures as the tide goes in and out.
>
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Kathy Steinsberger on wed 22 jan 03
Hi Marty,
Chris is right about some the unpredictability of some
commercial underglazes (and velvets). I've been
working with underglazes on lowfire red earthenware
(cone 06-2) for about 7 years and sometimes I still
get some rough spots, crazing, volcanos.. Sometimes
caused by firing conditions, sometimes by glaze
thickness, and chemical makeup of the individual
"color". However, underglazes can sometimes be fired
to cone 10 in a wood-salt kiln and get lovely results,
with little fading... If you want to proceed with
this, I suggest you try black, greens, and blues for
best results. Also, suggest the decorators apply
without thick spots...and except for black, dark blue,
and dark green...at least two coats as noted on the
underglaze bottles...
Another suggestion might be to try maiolica. A clay
body such as Stan's Red from Highwater is pretty good.
Maybe your Boston supplier could suggest another...
Several years ago, we used such a method for the 500
mugs we give away at the Annual Penland Auction. The
resident potter threw the mugs, bisqued them, and then
dipped them in a white maiolica base. All spring and
summer classes of potters and local folks participated
in decorating parties at huge tables with little
bottles of underglaze, and brushes, and plastic bowls
of water. The mugs were so neet and individual! The
maiolica base coat made a nice liner for the inside,
and the final firing could be accomplished without
more glazing.
Whatever you decide, I know the bowls will be great.
Good luck!
Kathy
--- Marty Morgan wrote:
> I'm planning our 3rd annual Empty Bowl Event for May
> 15th in Gloucester,
> MA. Last year we had over 400 bowls and ran out!
> This year I have a grant
> from our Cultural Council for $500 to pay for clay ,
> glazes and firing. We
> have had donations of pots from area potters and
> students, and I have held
> bowlathon events for community members, politicians,
> and friends at my
> studio. This year I thought I would make some white
> bowls and let people
> decorate them. ( I had major repair work to do when
> everyone did handbuilt
> work with my usual stoneware.) So my question is
> whether to use lo-fire
> cone 05-06 clay, have folks decorate with , say,
> Amaco Velvet underglaze
> colors and then I'll clear coat them; or go with a
> cone 6 clay for
> durability. My own work is in cone 10 stoneware so
> this will be new for
> me. The catalogs say that the Velvet underglazes
> work on Cone 6 bodies as
> well as the lo-fire ones. Any advice is welcome.
>
> Also, if there's anyone in the greater Boston area
> who would like to donate
> a bowl or come to the event, let me know. We have a
> lovely location on the
> ocean, live music, great soups and a wonderful group
> of people running the
> event.
>
> Marty Morgan
> Gloucester, MA, where the salt water river behind my
> studio freezes and
> refreezes, making ice sculptures as the tide goes in
> and out.
>
>
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Maryann on thu 30 jan 03
Greetings,
I have seen on the list the mention of the 'Empty Bowl' project. There is
one going on in South Lake Tahoe, They 'sell' them sith soup, so I suppose
its an empty soup bowl project. Anyone wanting to assist in the gathering
of bowls let me know. A woman from the CCC helps in the organization.
anyone intersted, I will get more info......
Maryann
soft and mild in Tahoe
Joanne Honsvall-Berg on thu 6 mar 03
Hi everyone,
The St. Croix Area Youth United Way is planning an Empty Bowls event for =
April 22, 2003. It is the first empty bowls event for Stillwater, MN. =
The event will be held in a local church. Local restaurants have agreed =
to donate soup and bread. Stillwater Area High School ceramic students =
are making bowls. However, time is running out and we do not have more =
than 25 bowls. Is there anyone out there that would be willing to donate =
some bowls? We would appreciate any help we can get. Thank you. =
651-439-3838
Joanne
St. Croix Area United Way
Edina Realty Bldg.
Myrtle at 2nd Street
Stillwater, MN 55082
=?iso-8859-1?q?Katie=20Ellis?= on fri 7 mar 03
Joanne~
What is the event for, what are the specifications for
the bowls, and how many do you want me to make?
~Katie
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Les on wed 11 jun 03
Hi All -
A group of us potters in Courtenay, B.C. (Canada) on the Wet Coast are planning an Empty Bowl event. I don't have an e-mail address for them.
If you have their address, would you pass it on, please. TIA
Les Crimp in Nanoose Bay, B.C.
lcrimp@shaw.ca
Ilene Mahler on thu 12 jun 03
Let me know.. will throw some bowls in my luggage we will be near Ann Semple
in B.C ..Whistler mainly as have bowls for the hungry we will be there June
26 to July 6 some one whoever is running the event Please e-mail me
...imahler@attbi.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Les"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 8:10 PM
Subject: Empty Bowls
> Hi All -
>
> A group of us potters in Courtenay, B.C. (Canada) on the Wet Coast are
planning an Empty Bowl event. I don't have an e-mail address for them.
>
> If you have their address, would you pass it on, please. TIA
>
> Les Crimp in Nanoose Bay, B.C.
> lcrimp@shaw.ca
>
>
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Klyf Brown on thu 12 jun 03
The Potters Guild of Las Cruces (New Mexico, USA) is having a
bowl-a-thon at my studio this Saturday. The goal is 300 extruded
bowls. It is easily attainable as the members from Alamogordo (70
miles east) came over two weeks ago and we did 300. There were
six people then, and ten or eleven are comming Saturday. Other
members host bowl-a-thons at their studios and there are events
planned at the university (NMSU) and at the Branigan cultural center
downtown.
The bowl-a-thons are usually pot luck deals so there are good eats.
It is nice to get together as a guild and work together on a project and
the events are always a lot of fun. Some events are making of the
bowls and others are glaze-a-thons. Many non potters participate in
the decorating of bowls at these events.
Last year we had just over 1000 bowls and raised $14,000. The
tickets are a flat ten bucks a bowl and we have silent auction bowls
and celeberty bowls. There are also special aprons and T-shirts for
sale. This years logo will be selected from a contest at local schools
(K-12), that is what will be printed on the T-shirts and aprons.
Eighteen local restaurants donate soup, and these are no run of the
mill soups, they really go all out
It is held on a friday in October from 11am to 2pm and at nine in the
morning they are already lined up around the block.
This will be our 11th year, so far we have raised $100,000 for a local
soup kitchen.
What I like about this kind of chairity is that ALL the money goes to
a local charity.
I am really curious as to how much money has been raised by these
projects world wide since it started in 1990. It has to be in the
millions.
Klyf Brown in New Mexico usa appologizing for the over use of the
word "event", but I couldn't think of another word to stick in there.
Christena Schafale on thu 12 jun 03
Hi Les,
Their website is: http://www.emptybowls.net and the contact info is
their. John doesn't always respond to emails right away, so you might be
better off calling -- phone number is on the site.
Chris Schafale
At 05:10 PM 06/11/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi All -
>
>A group of us potters in Courtenay, B.C. (Canada) on the Wet Coast are
>planning an Empty Bowl event. I don't have an e-mail address for them.
>
>If you have their address, would you pass it on, please. TIA
>
>Les Crimp in Nanoose Bay, B.C.
>lcrimp@shaw.ca
>
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Wayne Lewis on thu 12 jun 03
John Hartom and Lisa Blackburn are the folks and Imagine/Render group is the
parent organization. E-mail is ImagineRen@aol.com . Also you can use your
search engine to find their web site. They will send you a nice information
package and a form to report the out come of your event. My wife and I
(Hallelujahman Pottery) have sponsored a couple of events and have two planned for the
Fall to raise money to feed poor folk for Thanksgiving and Christmas. If i
can be of any assistance with your event please contact me at
hallelujahman_pottery@yahoo.com.
annsemple on thu 12 jun 03
Les
this is a 2002 contact and may not be current.
Won't hurt to give it a try.
www.craftsreport.com/february97/emptybowls2.html
Ann
annsemple@shaw.ca
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Les"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:10 PM
Subject: Empty Bowls
> Hi All -
>
> A group of us potters in Courtenay, B.C. (Canada) on the Wet Coast are
planning an Empty Bowl event. I don't have an e-mail address for them.
>
> If you have their address, would you pass it on, please. TIA
>
> Les Crimp in Nanoose Bay, B.C.
> lcrimp@shaw.ca
>
>
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Helen Bates on fri 13 jun 03
Hi Les,
I get Clayart by digest, so I don't always get it as soon as those who
receive the individual posts.
I typed out all the material below, then thought to see if there were
already some responses to your query, which there were. I hope you (and
Clayarters) don't mind getting this anyhow, since there is some added
detail here...
Empty Bowls has a web page hosted by Imagine/RENDER:
and you can send information to them via an
on-site form by clicking on the menu link: "Empty Bowls Events." Then
click on the drop-down box to the right "Add State to Add an Event" and
scroll right to the bottom and select "Outside the US" to click on.
This brings up the form in a new window. Fill it in and submit. (I
note that for entering the web page address it says to start with
"http;//www" but it should of course be "http://www" (and some urls
actually don't work with the "www", so don't add that if your url is one
of those.)
If you go back to the first window and select the other drop-down box
"Choose a State to View Events" and click on the "Outside the US"
selection, you'll see some of the Empty Bowls events that have been
going on in Canada (especially BC!) in the last couple of years. (You
can also get to the submission form from here by clicking on the link at
the bottom left of the page "Sign this Guestbook.")
I don't know if the web master has to add your information to the
"Choose a State to View Events" or it happens automatically. I guess
you'd find that out if you filled in the "Add State to Add an Event"
form.
While I was at the site, one casino pop-up window was generated, but
once I closed it), the window didn't pop up again while I moved back and
forth from the main window of the site and the "Empty Bowls Events"
windows, even when I closed then re-invoked the latter.
If you want to contact them by telephone, snail or e-mail, use the
"Contact Us" link on the main page.
> Contact Empty Bowls (...) at:
>
> P.O. Box 167, Oxford, MI 48371
> Phone: 248-628-4842
> Fax: 248-628-4533
> Or send email to us at ImagineRen@aol.com
If you have a question about how the site itself is working, there is a
webmaster's e-mail address on the home page.
Helen
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Klyf Brown on sat 14 jun 03
Thanks Bob
Saturday is over and we wound up with 375 extruded bowls for the
day. Actually we only worked for 4 hours. We had members come
early and leave early and others come in late, the stream worked out
just fine and we usually had about 10 working at any given time. I
thank all our members that donated time, but even more I thank Brant
at New Mexico Clay in Albuquerque as he graciously provided us
with the clay. We used it all today, Brant. He gave us a mix of white
and red clay. We loaded the extruder with a pug of white, then red
back and forth and wound up with self decorated bowls. The
streaking caused by alternating clay colour looks much like wood
grain, very nice. Just slap a clear over them and they are good to go.
Now only 525 more to go for our goal of 1000 (I already did 100
myself before today).
I will look into your site and send you the info.
Klyf Brown in New Mexico usa
>Congratulations on the great job you are doing with
>Empty Bowls. Our guild also runs an Empty Bowls event, and
>last year we brought in $8000 for a local homeless program.
>Unfortunately, I have no idea how much has been raised over
>the years.
Klyf Brown on sun 15 jun 03
Steph,
I had a lot of trouble seeing how this could work too until I did it. The
die is a very simple half circle. The centerline of the half circle is on the
centerline of the die. Ordinarly you would draw an X on the die from
corner to corner, this will give you the exact center of the board, even
if it is a rectangle. For a round die you would place your compass pin
in the center of the X. If you do that for a bowl it only extrudes a very
nice half tube straight down. The trick is to place the circle off center.
The die I am using is a 6" diameter (5 was just too small for a soup
bowl). With a square or tri-square draw a line from one side of the
die to the center of the X and measure 1 1/2" out from the center, this
is the point you place the compass point and with the compass set for
3" draw your circle, ending at a point 90 degrees from your center
point giving you a half circle. Even though this is a one piece die, it still
needs a supporting bridge as the die takes a lot of pressure and
without a good support the pressure will push the center part out untill
it snaps off (learned that one the hard way too). With mine I also have
two 4" straps of 3/8" steel that I place under my clamps at the widest
point of the circle, front and back on the underside (outside) or it
bows and threatens to crack the dies.It usually does this on really stiff
clay. You can get a wide variety of sizes from the one die, depending
on the stiffness of the clay. Because the die is technicallty off center it
curles as it comes out giving the bowl shape instead of a half tube.
I am using 1/2" Baltic (or Russian) Birch for the die stock My
extruder wants good plastic throwing clay a bit stiffer than most
people use for throwing. Soft clay results in floppy bowls that don't
want to cup up, and they are also larger.
If you have trouble understanding this, look on Bailey's site under
extruder dies and look at their bowl die, find the center of the die and
it will become obvious.
With the group we had the other day we were producing about 1 1/2
finished bowl every minute for four hours. With someone to bring
wedged clay and feed the maching and me underneath working the
pedal we were really knocking them out. Another advantage is that it
gives you a different looking bowl.
I also went in with a triangle file and placed marks every 3/8" (apx) on
the outside edge of the die. This gives it a "throwing" mark that is 90
degrees off from normal throwing marks. This really throws people
off. It makes it look as though I threw a perfect ball and divided it
vertically for two bowls. I like putting tracks on my dies. You have to
cut off the top of the bowl to get it off the extruder and then trim this.
When we trim we let the extrusion dictate the trim (wavey, peaked)
instead of a "flat" top for a more interesting shape.
Happy extruding
Klyf Brown in New Mexico usa
6/15/03 5:36:34 AM, "Culling" wrote:
>How do you extrude bowls? Sorry if this is a dumb question but
can't
>visualise it! :) Hoped someone else would ask but looks like I'm the
only
>one with the visual block.
>Steph
david mcbeth on thu 30 oct 03
I am coordinating an Empty Bowls project again this year. In fact,
next month. The event will be November 23rd. If anyone is inclined
or willing to donate a bowl to our humble effort you will be greatly
appreciated.
You can ship the bowl(s) to me at the address below.
thank you!
dave
--
David McBeth, MFA
Professor of Art
Assistant Director of Honors Programs
330 B Gooch Hall
The University of Tennessee at Martin
Martin, Tennessee 38238
731-587-7416
billie schwab on thu 11 nov 04
an empty bowls dinner and fund raiser is being sponsored in Oil City, PA by
the youth groups of our four parishes. i am soliciting donations of bowls
for this event. i have 1/4 of our goal of 400 made already and our dinner is
a couple of months away. my dilema is i have just had to have surgery on my
knee to replace the anterior cruciate ligament. although i am recovering
well, 3 weeks post op, and am involved in intense physical therapy it is
very difficult to be on my feet for prolonged periods of time. throwing the
bowls isn't the problem, loading the kiln, glazing and reloading is the
difficult part. i will continue to plug away here but would appreciate
any/all help anyone is willing to give. thank you for your time and
consideration - blessings
billie schwab
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Les on mon 7 mar 05
We are having an Empty Bowl Day in our Oceanside Community Arts Centre =
in Parksville, B.C. in May.
This is our first attempt at something like this and we could use some =
guidance, such as:
what is the best time of the day
what is the best day of the week
what is generally considered the correct price for the bowl
etc., etc., etc.
If any of our Clayarters can lend me some of their expertise on this it =
would be greatly appreciated. TIA
Les Crimp in Nanoose Bay, B.C.
lcrimp@shaw.ca
Darnie Sizemore on mon 7 mar 05
At Pewabic we have found that Friday evenings or
Saturday afternoons are best (lunch).
We charge $10 for adult bowls, and $5 for youth. We
also have a best of show auction, where we pick a few
of the best pieces and have a silent auction.
I hope this helps,
Darnie
--- Les wrote:
> We are having an Empty Bowl Day in our Oceanside
> Community Arts Centre in Parksville, B.C. in May.
>
> This is our first attempt at something like this and
> we could use some guidance, such as:
> what is the best time of the day
> what is the best day of the week
> what is generally considered the correct price
> for the bowl
> etc., etc., etc.
>
> If any of our Clayarters can lend me some of their
> expertise on this it would be greatly appreciated.
> TIA
>
> Les Crimp in Nanoose Bay, B.C.
> lcrimp@shaw.ca
>
>
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Cheryl Fisher on mon 7 mar 05
We have been doing our Empty Bowls for about 10 years now. It started at
the studio as a Sunday lunch (from 11:00 to 2:00 p.m.) during our
Christmas Show. It started with one soup from one restaurant and we
donated some of the fixin's for the soup. Bowls were $10. We raised
about $1,500 that year. It has evolved to a major affair on an historic
grounds on the bay in Sarasota. Now it is two weeks before Thanksgiving
weekend from 11:00 to 2:00 although there is some unadvertised earlier
time for people who can't come at those times. We have many, many soups,
breads and water. We charge $15 now. We also sell specialty bowls -
bowls that were picked and sold as gift sets, with an Empty Bowls apron
and a gift bag. These are $30 or $35 each. We also have some items that
are used for a silent auction. Last year we raised $40,000 + for our
food bank. Set up of tables and tents is on Saturday. Everything else is
set up on Sunday. We have committees in charge of the bowls (both kid's
and adults), as we have local potters, potters from the studio, potters
from the community college and bowls from our public schools. We have
committees in charge of the kitchen, food, bowl washing, water,
decorating, parking, etc. This year we had bowl washers for both
pre-washing and post washing. There was concern with so many people
handling bowls just trying to pick out the ones they wanted. When we set
the bowls out we have presorted into boxes an assortemnt of bowls from
various people. We don't put all of everybody's at once. We had some
problem in the beginning with people wanted a certain potter's bowls and
hogging them. So we fill in as we going. Volunteers are not allowed to
pick bowls until after a certain time so that we may assure that we have
all the bowls we need for the public. It has been a wonderful but
exhausting event. Any other questions fell free to ask.
Cheryl F.
Sarasota, FL
c31a47fish@verizon.net
Elaine Birk on tue 8 mar 05
The Ceramic Designers Assoc. in the Tidewater area of Virginia is getting
ready to have our 8th Empty Bowl Dinner on March 24th.
We usually have the dinner on a Friday eve. 5:30-8:30. This year we have
had to move to Thurs. night due to space conflicts.
We started out at $12.00 for a bowl, soup, bread, cookie, drink. We are now
up to $20.00 for same. We sell 700 tickets in advance and have sold out
every year. We sell the tickets through local galleries and retail
establishments that donate items for the dinner. We get everything donated.
A local college supplies the dining hall and soup, bakeries supply the bread
and cookies.
We have a silent auction of pots and other handmade items.
We have local musicians entertain.
We sell Empty Bowl aprons and tea towels.
The guests choose a handmade bowl, that are brought out and set on the
display tables throughout the evening, and get in line but the soup kitchen
serves the soup in a disposable bowl. That eliminates many problems: the
issue of people handling the bowls as they go about choosing one, the need
to wash the bowls afterwards and having bowls of different capacities.
We divide the monies collected between the local food bank and other groups
that feed the homeless and hungry.
It is a fun and worthwhile event. Good luck with yours,
Elaine Birk
Virginia Beach
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG]On Behalf Of Les
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 1:46 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Empty Bowls
We are having an Empty Bowl Day in our Oceanside Community Arts Centre in
Parksville, B.C. in May.
This is our first attempt at something like this and we could use some
guidance, such as:
what is the best time of the day
what is the best day of the week
what is generally considered the correct price for the bowl
etc., etc., etc.
If any of our Clayarters can lend me some of their expertise on this it
would be greatly appreciated. TIA
Les Crimp in Nanoose Bay, B.C.
lcrimp@shaw.ca
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Marty Morgan on tue 8 mar 05
Dear Les,
This will be my Fifth year running the bowl part of an Empty Bowls event.
We have gone from 200 people the first year (a week after 9/11) to over 700
last year.
We now hold the event in mid May to allow the schools time to make bowls.
I send out a letter to all the potters I know north of Boston sometime in
January asking for donations from them and their students.
We are lucky to have a wonderful artist working at our local senior center
who gets everyone there involved in handbuilding bowls.
Our local high school and middle school as well as several private schools
donate bowls.
I make maybe 200 lo fire white bowls and invite people to decorate them
which guarantees their coming to the event to find their bowls.
Local politicians and artists decorate some larger bowls for a silent auction.
One afternoon in April people come to my studio (outside, too small inside)
and handbuild bowls.
The event is run by the local food pantry and members of their board assume
responsibility for getting soup and bread from local restaurants and
bakeries, as well as organizing publicity, linens, flowers, etc.
We have face painting for kids, someone demonstrating on the wheel and
hunger awareness activities. Everyone in town loves this evening and it
clearly connects all parts of the community. We are still charging $10
minimum "donation" and have to make it clear that this is not a bargain
shopping event for those who want more than one bowl. The event is held
from 4 - 8 pm on a Thursday. If we have some bowls left at 7:30 pm we let
people buy them for $10. Last year we raised over $13,000, which included
some contributions from local businesses.
Best wishes with your project. If I can answer any specific questions
contact me off list.
Marty Morgan, in soggy Gloucester MA, expecting yet more snow tonight.
Marilu Tejero on fri 9 sep 05
Would someone experienced with organizing Empty Bowls, contact me off list.
I wish to do my bit for Katrina survivors, after the hurricane went over my house and not damage anything.
Thanks
Marilu in Miami
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Marty Morgan on sun 9 apr 06
Hi everyone,
This will be our sixth Empty Bowl event in Gloucester, MA, on May
11th from 4 - 8 pm. at the Elks Lodge on Atlantic Avenue ( lovely
view of the ocean). If anyone would like to attend the event or
donate a bowl we would be thrilled to have you participate. The last
two years we have had over 700 people attend, a challenge to come up
with enough bowls. Schools, senior citizens, friends and relations
have made or decorated bowls for us. Please contact me at
mmpots@usa.net if you would be willing to contribute.
thanks,
Marty Morgan, aka the bowl lady
Gloucester, MA
LAURA WHITTLE on mon 10 apr 06
I am currently trying to get organize our first Empy Bowls project this year with my guild. Do you do the whole meal/ fundraiser or do you just set up a sale with the bowls? Any tips would be appreciated. We are hoping for November/ December 2006 as the go ahead date to coincide with the local foodbank's Christmas food drive.
Thanks in advance,
Laura
----- Original Message -----
From: Marty Morgan <mmpots@USA.NET>
Date: Sunday, April 9, 2006 8:28 pm
Subject: empty bowls
> Hi everyone,
> This will be our sixth Empty Bowl event in Gloucester, MA, on May
> 11th from 4 - 8 pm. at the Elks Lodge on Atlantic Avenue ( lovely
> view of the ocean). If anyone would like to attend the event or
> donate a bowl we would be thrilled to have you participate. The last
> two years we have had over 700 people attend, a challenge to come up
> with enough bowls. Schools, senior citizens, friends and relations
> have made or decorated bowls for us. Please contact me at
> mmpots@usa.net if you would be willing to contribute.
> thanks,
> Marty Morgan, aka the bowl lady
> Gloucester, MA
>
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Marty Morgan on fri 12 may 06
We held our 6th annual Empty Bowl dinner last night. Drizzly cool
weather had me worried about the turnout, but we were mobbed when we
opened the doors at 4 pm. 800 people showed up and raised over
$18,000. for the Cape Ann Open Door / Food Pantry. Thanks to all the
potters and schools involved ( including 4 boxes of bowls sent by
Peggy Clarke at La Mano studio in NY) we even had left over
bowls! What a great community building event!
Marty Morgan
Gloucester,MA
Lynn Goodman Porcelain Pottery on sun 4 nov 07
Hi Everyone,
About a month ago, I put out a request for bowls for Brooklyn Potters
Group's Empty Bowls function. This is a reminder to anyone who would
like to donate: The ceremony will be on Nov. 14; you need to ship
this week if you want to have work at the ceremony. The display will
remain up, so late arrivals will be shown as well.
Any questions, please e-mail or call me.
Thank you!
Lynn
Lynn Goodman
Fine Porcelain Pottery
Cell 347-526-9805
www.lynngoodmanporcelain.com
Lynn Goodman Porcelain Pottery on mon 5 nov 07
On Nov 4, 2007, at 11:35 PM, Lynn Goodman Porcelain Pottery wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> About a month ago, I put out a request for bowls for Brooklyn Potters
> Group's Empty Bowls function. This is a reminder to anyone who would
> like to donate: The ceremony will be on Nov. 14; you need to ship
> this week if you want to have work at the ceremony. The display will
> remain up, so late arrivals will be shown as well.
>
> Any questions, please e-mail or call me.
OOPS! Forgot the contact info:
lynn@lynngoodmanporcelain.com
347-526-9805
Thank you,
Lynn
Lynn Goodman
Fine Porcelain Pottery
Cell 347-526-9805
www.lynngoodmanporcelain.com
Lynne Martin on tue 19 feb 08
Hello, Hello! I am a western nc potter organizing an Empty Bowls event on
May 8th. We are going to support "The Outreach Center" which gives free
groceries to approximately 1000 families per week in Morganton and
surrounding counties. We are also supporting "New Beginnings" transitional
home for women in crisis. If this goes well, I hope to then organize one
in Rutherford County. This area has been hard hit by furniture and
textile plant closings.
I haven't been here long, only posted a few times, and I am not sure how
often a request for bowls comes across this list or if this is considered
okay. I would welcome any advice from anyone who has participated in an
event before and of course welcome any bowls anyone would care to
contribute. We will also be having a silent auction of pots.
feel free to contact me offlist at csm58@bellsouth.net
peace, lynne
Lynne Martin on wed 20 feb 08
oops.. a couple folks emailed and asked for an address to send
bowls..thank you so much for your help and support. Potters really are
the best people in the world. Peace, Lynne
Lynne C. Martin
Empty Bowls Burke Coordinator
107 Woodland Place
Morganton, NC 28655
Marcia Selsor on sat 29 aug 09
Empty Bowls here in the Rio Grande Valley are made for the Rio Grande
Food bank.
Usually UT Pan AM hosts a Throw-athon on a Sat. It is a fun social
event. All the wheels are going with volunteers throwing.
I throw my bowls off the hump since batts are at a premiun during this
event. I find it is faster for me.
John is pretty fast with those batts he used!
Marcia Selsor
http://marciaselsor.com
Ric Swenson on sat 29 aug 09
For the three years that I made works and worked at the Empty food bowls pr=
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oject in Atlanta...it was a project that I very much looked forward to each=
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year...
I sent some of my best work.
=3D20
In addition to the work at the downtown Lutheran Church where we made soup=
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and handed out food and bread to the homeless...Once a week...... A good =
=3D
way to put yourself in your place...and to truly realize how lucky most of =
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us are. We have our problems and anxious moments...but cannot compare to li=
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ving on the street....or in a car...or tent...
=3D20
I realize=3D2C living in China...in a very rural Province....that I am bles=
se=3D
d to make enough money every month.... To eat and live well....
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itute=3D2C=3D20
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> Date: Sat=3D2C 29 Aug 2009 07:54:54 -0500
> From: selsor@IMT.NET
> Subject: Empty Bowls
> To: Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
>=3D20
> Empty Bowls here in the Rio Grande Valley are made for the Rio Grande
> Food bank.
> Usually UT Pan AM hosts a Throw-athon on a Sat. It is a fun social
> event. All the wheels are going with volunteers throwing.
> I throw my bowls off the hump since batts are at a premiun during this
> event. I find it is faster for me.
> John is pretty fast with those batts he used!
> Marcia Selsor
> http://marciaselsor.com
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John Britt on sat 29 aug 09
Ric,
Yes, that is the real point. It is really necessary these days with so m=
=3D
any out=3D20
of work and needing help. It is very hard to remember what it is like an=
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d how=3D20
many people need basic assistance when we have so much excess.
Anyway, keep on pottin,
John Britt
www.johnbrittpottery.com
Ellen Currans on sat 9 jan 10
The Oregon Food Bank organizes a 4 day Waterfront Blues Festival in=3D20
Portland
over the 4th of July Weekend. Entry fees plus donated canned food,=3D20
and proceeds
from food and drink booths all go to support the Food Bank. The=3D20
Oregon Potters
Association got involved with this shortly after Empty Bowls was=3D20
started, and they
have a large booth each year at the Festival to sell pottery. We don't=3D2=
0
supply food
in the bowls, and we do not require that they only be bowls. They can=3D20
be seconds
or "just around too long" and they are priced accordingly by the=3D20
volunteer members
who man the booth. Some members donate very good work. Sometimes it is=3D2=
0
a pot
just a bit warped or with a tiny flaw. Some are made specifically for=3D20
the Festival, usually by some
of our member teachers who involve their classes in producing work for=3D20
the Food Bank.
Some of the clay and firing is donated, and the work done at=3D20
throw-a-thons.
We collect all year around. One of our Board members is chairman and=3D20
manages
the whole event. The Blues Festival provides the booth. Potters=3D20
volunteering in the
booth get free access to the Festival, which apparently is a rousing=3D20
good time for
all who participate. In the last few years, we have even allowed=3D20
volunteers to bring
along some of their own pottery to fill out the shelves the last few=3D20
days, with a donation
of 25 per cent to the Food Bank.
The Food Bank people love us! We are one of the most valuable booths=3D20
for them.
We just recently passed $200,000 in net donations to the Food Bank. I=3D20
think this
is a wonderful way for potters, who seldom have much extra money, to=3D20
give to the
community. We don't have to do any publicity to get the customers to=3D20
attend, we
are turning so-so pots into food for hungry people, and we have a lot=3D20
of fun in the
process. During the year I set aside all my questionable pots and=3D20
send them off
to the Blues Festival. Should I be taking a hammer to them instead? =3D20
Perhaps,
but I choose to believe that they are doing more good feeding people=3D20
than as landfill
in the gully. And I truly believe, that many people who might never=3D20
think to buy pottery
have become acquainted with it at the Blues Festival and will look for=3D20
better work
later on. We pass out publicity for our Showcase there as well.
Ellen Currans
Dundee, Oregon
Notime Forspam on thu 10 nov 11
I've been making Empty Bowls bowls all week and I'm tuckered out!
Not that it takes that much.=3DA0 And my bowls are nothing special - my los=
s =3D
of fine coordination doesn't affect throwing much=3D2C but wait 'til I star=
t =3D
trying to do the surface finishing.
Had I realized the way that it works=3D2C I probably wouldn't have started.=
=3D
=3DA0 I thought the bowls would be given to people.=3DA0 Instead I guess th=
ey'r=3D
e put up for sale?=3DA0 Which means my little 2nd rate bowls will probably =
la=3D
nguish lonely and unbought.
=3D
Zen Sojourner on fri 11 nov 11
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:37:05 -0600, Elisabeth Maurland
wrote:
>My friend George Lowe, who started the event here in Decorah, has=3D20
>started to throw on two wheels at once!=3D20
I wanna see that on Youtube!
>Somebody will love your bowls, and it's a great cause. Thank you for doi=
=3D
ng it.
>
>Elisabeth
Thank you. My confidence level is nearly as low as my energy level these=
=3D
days, LOL! When I took pottery up again this past summer after a nearly =
=3D
20
year absence, it took me FOUR WHOLE MONTHS to turn out a bowl as good as =
=3D
the
first one I ever threw.
I'm making progress on the throwing part but I have a long way to go. Th=
=3D
e
loss of fine motor control makes finish work more difficult than I though=
=3D
t
it would be. Plus, unlike the throwing part, I don't have a strong histo=
=3D
ry
of quality finish work behind me. I used to lose interest in the piece o=
=3D
nce
it was thrown, in part because community studios back then typically didn=
=3D
't
have a lot to choose from in the way of glazes (and no slip at all, color=
=3D
ed
or otherwise, at least not in any of the studios I was at). So once a pi=
=3D
ece
was put aside for bisque it was no longer of interest and I would just di=
=3D
p
it in whatever ugly boring glaze happened to be available at the time. I=
=3D
was already into the next piece on the wheel.
Now I do have the interest, and I'm finding that the finish work is far m=
=3D
ore
complex and rife with possibility than I had ever thought back then.=3D20
Unfortunately my manual dexterity is lacking and I don't have old, reviva=
=3D
ble
skills to help me.
I hope to have a wheel at home soon. Once that happens I'll be able to w=
=3D
ork
a bit more reliably. As it is now, any little thing can knock me flat. =
=3D
Not
long ago I caught a teensy cold and was housebound for almost a month. W=
=3D
ith
a wheel at home I can work off and on as I feel like it, and have more
energy left for the work since I won't need to expend so much of it tryin=
=3D
g
to get back and forth. Buses are difficult for folks who aren't doing so=
=3D
well health-wise.
So I hope you're right, and my 2nd rate bowls won't be a total waste. I'=
=3D
d
like to feel I was able to contribute in some small way.
The sad thing is these ARE my best work. If I were capable of doing bett=
=3D
er,
I'd contribute those.=3D20=3D20
So thank you for your kind words. Maybe next year I will be able to
contribute better work.
Soj
Zen Sojourner on fri 11 nov 11
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:25:34 -0800, Philip Poburka w=
=3D
rote:
>Hi
>
>
>Why not make better Bowls?
Well I would LIKE to make better bowls - that's sort of the purpose of no=
=3D
t
quitting.
>
>How long have you been doing this?
40 years ago I started handbuilding. Not quite 20 years ago I took up th=
=3D
e
wheel. I was also silversmithing. As a single working mother I couldn't=
=3D
do
both, so I kept up with the silversmithing, that being the more portable =
=3D
of
the 2.
>If even you do not feel your Bowls are any good, or good enough, why kee=
=3D
p
>making them?
Umm, practice?
>You seem to be saying that as sub-standard Bowls, they should be good en=
=3D
ough
>to give to poor people, but, once finding out they were to be sold, you =
=3D
now
>fear none ot them will sell, since they are not good enough to sell, if =
=3D
a
>buyer had any choice to instead get something better.
Almost. Remove the negative connotations of economic elitism, and that I=
=3D
S
pretty much what I'm saying. My bowls ARE good enough to give away; they=
=3D
are not good enough to sell. That loss of fine motor control I mentioned=
=3D
is
giving me some problems with the finish work.
I thought the way this worked was the bowls would be given away for free =
=3D
to
homeless people and they could then take the bowls to participating
restaurants at certain times for a free meal.
Apparently what happens is the bowls are auctioned and then the people wh=
=3D
o
bought them can go to a restaurant and get 10% off their meal or somethin=
=3D
g.
I'm actually not sure, except that apparently the bowls are NOT given aw=
=3D
ay
for free, somebody has to buy them and the money is donated to a charity
program to feed hungry people.
If nobody buys my bowls, then no money will be donated to the charity, an=
=3D
d
that means I've wasted the time of the people running the charity.
>Hmmm...
>
>What are you even bothering?
You, apparently.
But thank you for your compassion and encouragement anyway.
Philip Poburka on fri 11 nov 11
Hi
Why not make better Bowls?
How long have you been doing this?
If even you do not feel your Bowls are any good, or good enough, why keep
making them?
You seem to be saying that as sub-standard Bowls, they should be good enoug=
h
to give to poor people, but, once finding out they were to be sold, you now
fear none ot them will sell, since they are not good enough to sell, if a
buyer had any choice to instead get something better.
Hmmm...
What are you even bothering?
Phil
Lv
----- Original Message -----
From: "Notime Forspam"
To:
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:30 PM
Subject: Empty Bowls
I've been making Empty Bowls bowls all week and I'm tuckered out!
Not that it takes that much. And my bowls are nothing special - my loss of
fine coordination doesn't affect throwing much, but wait 'til I start tryin=
g
to do the surface finishing.
Had I realized the way that it works, I probably wouldn't have started. I
thought the bowls would be given to people. Instead I guess they're put up
for sale? Which means my little 2nd rate bowls will probably languish lonel=
y
and unbought.
=3D
Elisabeth Maurland on fri 11 nov 11
The way Empty Bowls works here, and I think it should be the same way =3D
everywhere, is that potters donate bowls, cooks and restaurants donate =3D
soup and bread, and people come and pick out a bowl of their choice, =3D
fill it with the soup of their choice, and have an enjoyable meal with =3D
friends. They pay $15 (? - not sure how much), which gets donated to the =
=3D
Food Bank.=3D20
We have several hundred bowls every year, and most are not first =3D
rate.... Many are student bowls, many are by professional potters who =3D
don't put as much effort into each bowl as they normally do, in order to =
=3D
make as many as possible. My friend George Lowe, who started the event =3D
here in Decorah, has started to throw on two wheels at once! He really, =3D
really wants people to get food. He makes more bowls for this event in a =
=3D
year than the rest of us put together. Granted, the craftsmanship in a =3D
bowl created by one left hand is not quite what he would bring to a =3D
show, but they sell, they all do.=3D20
The event is more successful each year. A few bowls are always left =3D
over, and they are kept for next year.
My husband just found one of mine from 2008 at the local thrift store. =3D
Not the prettiest pot I ever made (by far!), but someone bought it and =3D
apparently kept it for three and a half years. Next March it will go =3D
back to be sold at Empty Bowls again!
Somebody will love your bowls, and it's a great cause. Thank you for =3D
doing it.
Elisabeth
On Nov 10, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Notime Forspam wrote:
> I've been making Empty Bowls bowls all week and I'm tuckered out!
>=3D20
> Not that it takes that much. And my bowls are nothing special - my =3D
loss of fine coordination doesn't affect throwing much, but wait 'til I =3D
start trying to do the surface finishing.
>=3D20
> Had I realized the way that it works, I probably wouldn't have =3D
started. I thought the bowls would be given to people. Instead I guess =
=3D
they're put up for sale? Which means my little 2nd rate bowls will =3D
probably languish lonely and unbought.
>=3D20
Dinah Snipes Steveni on sat 12 nov 11
It's a superb cause. I'm on the board here in Skagit County, Washington Sta=
te for Slow Food, Salish Sea Chapter and we recently held an Empty Bowls ev=
ent and raised in two hours approx $750 for Skagit County Food Alliance. I =
helped make the soup -- prepped and chopped and followed chefs'instructions=
, and donated bowls. We staggered the price range based on size. Some were =
$5, then $15, then $25, then $30. We held a raffle too with some wonderful =
pieces of ceramics, other donated items, to whet the appetite and to loosen=
the purse strings. I gave an impromptu seminar -- I was chatting to a chu=
m picking up pots and examining the base and then a crowd and questions mat=
erialized -- in foot rings, glazes, and how to read a pot to the volunteers=
before we threw open the doors to the public. Alas, some bowls got boxed u=
p as pet bowls as they were not up to the mark after my "seminar". When I f=
inished and withdrew, the volunteers began to look, evaluate and "see", and=
cull.
Dinah
Mount Vernon, WA.
www.dinahsnipessteveni.com
www.dinahsnipessteveni.wordpress.com
"To obtain a certain thing, you have to become a certain person."
Zen Buddhist saying
Julie Brooks on sat 12 nov 11
Empty Bowls Events are so empowering. Instead of just being sad about wh=
=3D
at
is wrong in the community, participants can do something to effect immedi=
=3D
ate
change.
Keith Preston of the Paradise Valley School District in Phoenix explains=
=3D
that the Paradise Valley Emergency Food Bank "provides food boxes, lunch
backpacks, and other emergency food services for the most needy in our
community. The PVEFB provided over 8,000 food boxes last year and they
estimate that approximately 4,000 children were served."=3D20=3D20
Just one of the schools in Paradise Valley District raised $800 for the=
=3D
food bank.=3D20=3D20
I agree, someone who has a full tummy and can concentrate well enough =
=3D
to
learn won't be at all bothered about how perfect (or imperfect) your bowl=
=3D
is.
Ellen and Tom on sun 13 nov 11
The Oregon Potters Association has been running an empty Bowls
event for since l993. In the beginning we were asking for donated
bowls to sell for $10 each which entitled the buyer to have it filled
with soup at the sales event. Early on we realized that accepting
only bowls severely limited the donations, and depending on another
restaurant booth to supply the free soup was also a bit tricky. I
can't remember exactly where we sold our Empty bowls the first
few years, but for most of the l8 years now we hold our Empty
Bowls event at the Portland Waterfront Blues Festival over the
4th of July Weekend. We have become one of their favored booths
and donated over $220,000 to the Oregon Food Bank by 2010.
We accept anything ceramic or glass. The pieces are collected year
round at our meetings and assigned drop offs. We can use space
at the Oregon Food Bank to store boxes of pots during the year.
(The food bank loves us!) A number of our college and high school
OPA member teachers promote making bowls, etc. in their classes
which are also donated, and Georgies, our local Portland clay supplier
has donated space and clay and kilns for several weeks over Christmas
holidays for small groups to collaboratively produce pots for Empty
Bowls. The public knows that most of this work are seconds. They
accept a few blemishes or warps for a lower price. We potters are
grateful that we can help our community by giving something other
than scarce cash. Many of the potters donate first rate work rather than
have their name out there on seconds.
Nearly 40 members set up and run the booth during the Blues
Festival (they get in free and I think the booth is free).
The work is all priced by the committee, not the donating potters.
If some of the work is only good for
dog bowls it is priced accordingly. If something is really quite lovely
it receives a higher price. The customer just gets the bowl-
no soup. Because the pottery has been so well received (and they
know where the money is going) in the past few years we have
run out of work the last day or so, and we now allow committee
members to bring work for the last day, and donate 25% of their
sales to the food bank.
Janean in Astoria - you are close enough to Portland to participate.
You don't have to be a member to donate. We are happy to share
the warm fuzzy feeling we enjoy working through Empty bowls with anyone.
Ellen Currans
Portland, Oregon
Richard White on sun 13 nov 11
I believe the original "method" of an Empty Bowls event was potters make
bowls, which are set out on tables in front of the venue. For a modest
price, the public purchases the right to pick out one of those bowls and
then go inside and eat soup in that bowl. The soups were made by local
restaurants or made on site. The customer takes the bowl home afterwards.=
=3D
The net proceeds from the sale of bowls (w/ soup) are donated to a
food-related charity. In theory, you are not supposed to use the term
"Empty Bowls" unless it benefits a food-related charity.=3D20
My small local clay guild used to put on an EB event every year, but it g=
=3D
ot
to be a huge hassle finding a venue (a local high school cafeteria, until=
=3D
the school board decided to stop renting out the food service part of the=
=3D
facility), advertising it, running it, etc. The area food banks started
running their own events, and we just gave them the bowls (several hundre=
=3D
d
bowls each year made by members of the guild).=3D20
The one we have the closest relationship with now has changed the way the=
=3D
y
run the event. For Health Dept. reasons, they must serve the soup in
disposable bowls rather than in bowls that they can't certify have been
washed and sterilized to regulatory standards. It is disappointing to see=
=3D
the waste of all the used paper bowls going to the dump, but it has freed=
=3D
us
from the tyranny of the bowl. Any piece of your pottery work you want to
donate is welcome; doesn't have to be a bowl.=3D20
dw
Karin Givon on mon 14 nov 11
This is how our local helping-the-homeless charity ( Hospitality
House) handles our Empty Bowl project each year. We ( the potters)
help feed thousands of meals to people who need them by donating the
bowls. It's a local ( Grass Valley, CA) event and quite social and
fun. We also have a "big bowl" auction and and "sale" table for items
that just don't quite fit the bowl thing. Last year we raised $8000
and we hope to do that well or better this year.
If anyone longs to donate some bowls, we don't fuss about size or
color; they Should hold soup but as I said above--we have a sale
table. feel free to send any offerings to me. I collect them until
SOUP DAY, which this winter will be on February 25. Address below!
Thanks! And you, Soj, I bet your bowls would be gratefully scooped
right up and used and loved. So send em. Please. We'll find them a
home, and do some good besides. Win, win is our aim.
Karin Givon
220 Jordan St.
Nevada City, Ca. 95959
On Nov 13, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Richard White wrote:
I believe the original "method" of an Empty Bowls event was potters make
bowls, which are set out on tables in front of the venue. For a modest
price, the public purchases the right to pick out one of those bowls and
then go inside and eat soup in that bowl. The soups were made by local
restaurants or made on site. The customer takes the bowl home
afterwards.
The net proceeds from the sale of bowls (w/ soup) are donated to a
food-related charity. In theory, you are not supposed to use the term
"Empty Bowls" unless it benefits a food-related charity.
My small local clay guild used to put on an EB event every year, but
it got
to be a huge hassle finding a venue (a local high school cafeteria,
until
the school board decided to stop renting out the food service part of
the
facility), advertising it, running it, etc. The area food banks started
running their own events, and we just gave them the bowls (several
hundred
bowls each year made by members of the guild).
The one we have the closest relationship with now has changed the way
they
run the event. For Health Dept. reasons, they must serve the soup in
disposable bowls rather than in bowls that they can't certify have been
washed and sterilized to regulatory standards. It is disappointing to
see
the waste of all the used paper bowls going to the dump, but it has
freed us
from the tyranny of the bowl. Any piece of your pottery work you want to
donate is welcome; doesn't have to be a bowl.
dw
Taylor Hendrix on tue 15 nov 11
http://www.emptybowls.net/
I believe I read at least one article about the founders of this
movement in one of the clay magazines, oh so long ago. Oh boy.
Taylor, in Rockport TX
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Richard White wrote:
> I believe the original "method" of an Empty Bowls event was potters make
> bowls, which are set out on tables in front of the venue. For a modest
> price, the public purchases the right to pick out one of those bowls and
> then go inside and eat soup in that bowl. The soups were made by local
> restaurants or made on site. The customer takes the bowl home afterwards.
> The net proceeds from the sale of bowls (w/ soup) are donated to a
> food-related charity. =3DC2=3DA0In theory, you are not supposed to use th=
e te=3D
rm
> "Empty Bowls" unless it benefits a food-related charity.
...
Neal on wed 16 nov 11
I volunteered today at lunch for the empty bowls type event the Triangle
Potters Guild helps Urban Ministries of Wake County do each year.
Several members of the guild help staff the selection table. We have
all sorts of bowls, and the people who are picking them out don't always
choose the bowls I think are best. But a particular color, shape, or size
of bowl will appeal to someone when it doesn't appeal to me. They don't
look at each bowl with a critical eye, and that's part of the joy of helpin=
g.
The event became so popular that the organizers split it into lunch and
supper last year.
Neal O'B.
Raleigh, NC
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